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I Am a Respectable Person
by Jack Kelly Elizabeth Jennings Graham. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. “We are not going back,” is a refrain heard in this year’s election campaign. We like to think of...
Major League Baseballâs Historical Quest to Entice Middle- and Upper-Class Fans to the Park
This piece is a response to our call for submissions, Histories of Sport. For our submission guidelines, click here. In June, I attended Major League Baseballâs (MLB) London...
Denial, Distraction, Doubt, and Deceit on the Road to Scientific Disinformation
To this day, many in the United States recall the 1950s as the height of the era of âbetter living through chemistry.â[1] But it was also the moment when much of the public...
Featured Excerpt: President Carter
by Stuart E. Eizenstat Grounding the B-1 Bomber Exclusive picture of President Jimmy Carter in Stuart E. Eizenstat’s biography, President Carter. Far more complex, both...
Wednesday, Bloody Wednesday
by Tom Clavin Depiction of the fighting near Dunker Church by Thure de Thulstrup. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Should anyone consider “civil war” over the outcome, one...
Remembering America’s Child Labor Crisis and the Women Reformers Who Opposed It
In the last couple of years, Americans have rediscovered child labor. The Nation reported that âChild Labor is BackâAnd Itâs as Chilling as Everâ and the New York Times...
The Finest Rough-and-Tumble Fighter
by Jack Kelly Florence Kelley’s father, William, taught his daughter to read in 1866 using books that chronicled child labor. When she was seven, he had her studying “a terrible...